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Show THE HALT LAKE CLEARING HOt'HK. The clearing house is proving a success. suc-cess. Sail Luke need not bo ashamed of her showing in the matter of bank clearings. During the first live days they amounted to $1, 878,434, making a daily average of 375,1 1. This would lie a total for six days of $3,25:1,005. There arc now fifty-four clearing-house cities, and these figures place Salt Lake about No. 23, in the same class with St. Paul, Minneapolis, Columbus and Memphis, anil ahead of Portland, Ore., Indianapolis, St. Joseph, Galveston, Washington, Peoria, New Haven, Worcester, Wor-cester, Portland, Me., and twenty other places, nearly all of which have as largo a population as Salt Lake. e Tho figures of the bank clearings are telegraphed, from all tho cities every Saturday night to Boston, where they are compiled, and the general statement is sent out to the associated press every Sunday night and published in the Monday morning papers. pa-pers. This statement is regarded as tho thermometer of business, and is. about the first item that a business man reads. Ho sees at a glance what every important import-ant city has been doing during the past week, and tho total shows tho general business condition of tho country. |